Comments on: Advantages of here

By: Bishop Hill

Bishop Hill — Wed, 04 May 2005 15:35:00 +0000

Habeus Corpus?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 10:35:00 +0000

Well, NY has high local taxes, so of course it’s not more economically advantageous. Try New Hampshire.

As for freedoms – several of them are enshrined in the constitution, in the ways ours most definitely are not.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 15:18:00 +0000

At $60 an eigth, the economic advantages of the US seem quite unclear to me.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 12:43:00 +0000

I don’t think getting rich is much of a reason to move to the US; tax rates here in Canada are delightfully low for the wealthy, & we get to grow pot in out garages, drink before age 21, have abortions, vote in actually democratic elections, marry one’s gay partner, walk around topless etc etc AND our freedoms are better protected than theirs since the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms hasn’t been undermined by astonishingly illiberal ‘terrorism’ legislation. The only reason I can see for moving further South is if one’s prepared to trade many of these things for buying as many guns as you want and being able to threaten people with them without going to jail for it.

By: john b

john b — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:06:00 +0000

Nah, boring: that’s the sort of thing that our filth do already.

By: Larry

Larry — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:55:00 +0000

I’d like to see fit American policewomen befriending high-school loners, filling their heads full of nihilism and gun-fetishism, and *implying* that they’d like them to perform a Columbine style massacre. Then hey presto the police have "cracked a murder-ring".

By: Matt Daws

Matt Daws — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:41:00 +0000

Andrew,

Erm, care to explain the economic benefits? Certainly I haven't seen any in NY... And in what ways are American's "a lot freer"? Unless you count being able to carry large guns as a useful freedom

--Matt

By: john b

john b — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:39:00 +0000

Jimmy – No. However, I’ve spent around 3 months there, and have several (English, USan and other) friends who have lived there full-time.

Andrew/Matt – not particularly crowing, hence my "While it’s easy to bash our mentalist authoritarian government" start bit; there are a great many places other than the UK where I’d move if I could speak the language as proficiently as I can speak English (the jobs I’m capable of being paid well for require excellent written and spoken language skills, and I’m not willing to move abroad to be poor). Would be interested to know ways Yanks are genuinely freer than us, other than the economic one (paying 38% of GDP in taxes and healthcare costs instead of 45% – wahey!)

Steve – I suspect they might if they were adults (not sure exactly how US law works here, and I imagine the girl was careful to only *imply* she wanted drugs). But since they’re kids, their parents are likely to make them plead guilty on the grounds that Drugs Are Bad, Mkay.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:49:00 +0000

Surely they’ll appeal that drug conviction. How does that not count as entrapment? The judgement is clearly insane.

By: Mat

Mat — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:27:00 +0000

Yes John, if you’re rich… you can get very very rich?!? And if you’re very very rich, you could get very^15 rich… Or at least, you can dream about it.
Isn’t this worth something?